Seasons of Tragedy

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Seasons of Tragedy
Benedictum - Seasons of Tragedy.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 11, 2008 (2008-01-11)
Genre Heavy metal
Length59:03
Label Locomotive Music
Producer Jeff Pilson
Benedictum chronology
Uncreation
(2006)
Seasons of Tragedy
(2008)
Dominion
(2011)

Seasons of Tragedy is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band Benedictum, released through Locomotive Records in 2008.

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. The genre's lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo.

Benedictum is an American heavy metal band formed in 2005 in San Diego, California that now resides in Phoenix, Arizona. Their current line-up consists of vocalist Veronica Freeman, guitarist Pete Wells, bassist Aric Avina, and drummer Rikard Stjernquist. Since their formation the band released three studio albums, debuting with Uncreation in 2006, followed by Seasons of Tragedy in 2008, both through Madrid, Spain-based label Locomotive Music, before signing with Italian label Frontiers Records for their third album, Dominion, issued in 2011.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Dawn of Seasons" (Instrumental) – 1:26
  2. "Shell Shock" – 4:25
  3. "Burn It Out" – 3:32
  4. "Bare Bones" – 5:11
  5. "Within the Solace" – 4:21
  6. "Beast in the Field" – 6:37
  7. "Legacy" – 5:35
  8. "Nobodies Victim" – 4:44
  9. "Balls to the Wall" (Accept cover; written by Udo Dirkschneider, Wolf Hoffmann, Hermann Frank, Peter Baltes & Stefan Kaufmann) – 5:44
  10. "Steel Rain" – 5:46
  11. "Seasons of Tragedy" – 11:37
  12. "Catch the Rainbow" (Rainbow cover and bonus track; written by Ronnie James Dio & Ritchie Blackmore) - 6:34

Personnel

Benedictum

Rhythm guitar guitar technique; part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section

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Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure. The lead is the featured guitar, which usually plays single-note-based lines or double-stops. In rock, heavy metal, blues, jazz, punk, fusion, some pop, and other music styles, lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar, which consists of accompaniment chords and riffs.

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses.

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